DERELICT WORTH A FORTUNE.
STEAMERS RACE TO SAVE HER. Halifax, April 3. Floating iu the open oceau, a menace to navigation, anil worth a fortune in salvage, the abandoned steamer Dunmore, of Cardiff, was the cause of an exciting race in mid-ocean on March 24th, between the British steamer Coulsdon, which arrived at Boston on Saturday from Japan and China, and the Hamburg American steamer Calabria, bound from Hamburg to New York. With what looked like an immense salvage in view, the captains and engineers of both steamers crowded their vessels to the utmost limit in a mad f f.ir the expected prize. The Goulsljn won by fifteen minutes, only to tind that the big steamer was so far on her beam ends that to tow her to port was too great a task. This was also the decision of the Calabria, and at nightfall both steamers bore away. It was at 1 p.m. on March 2 Ith that Captain Henry, of the Coulsdon, sighted the hull of a steamer that was listed far on her port side. It was evident that the vessel had boon abandoned. At the same time ho made out the Hamburg-American steamer bearing in the same direction, and the race then began, which the Coulsdon
Captain Henry, of the Coulsdon, says that if he had not had so valuable j'a cargo and had bad plenty of coal hewould certainly have taken the chance of towing the Dunmore in. She was badly listed, and it would have been a difficult task,but she was well worth the attempt. As it was, he made way for the Hamburg-American steamer, but her captain was evideutly in a similar lis for after standing by a.vhile he put on steam, and at sundown both the Couldon and the Calabria wero both out of sight of the abandoned steamer.
The Dunmore tt.is abandoned on January liJth, her engines having broken down and her hull being leaky. Since then she has been sighted by no fewer than fifteen steamers, and in each ease she was directed in the way of trans-Atlantic traffic. A cruiser has been sent out to sink the derelict.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8123, 31 May 1906, Page 4
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359DERELICT WORTH A FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8123, 31 May 1906, Page 4
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